Fyffes swung into a record loss of almost €170 million last year. It was forced to take hefty impairment charges against its melon and mushroom businesses amid the Covid-19 pandemic and group restructuring. The Dublin-based - but Japanese-owned - company also disclosed in its latest annual report, filed with the Companies Registration Office recently, that its long-standing executive chairman David McCann and finance director Tom Murphy shared €7.46 million in exit payments they left the company last year.